Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of pecker is as below...

Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..

Crankbird :: Crankbird (n.) A small European woodpecker (Picus minor).

Figeater :: Figeater (n.) A bird. See Figpecker.

Specht :: Specht (n.) A woodpecker.

Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..

Woodpecker :: Woodpecker (n.) Any one of numerous species of scansorial birds belonging to Picus and many allied genera of the family Picidae.

Pici :: Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Carpintero :: Carpintero (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird..

Chab :: Chab (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).

Yaffle :: Yaffle (n.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack..

Woodchuck :: Woodchuck (n.) The yaffle, or green woodpecker..

Oxpecker :: Oxpecker (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.

Stormfinch :: Stormcock (n.) The green woodpecker.

Eccle :: Eccle (n.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle..

Scansorial :: Scansorial (a.) Capable of climbing; as, the woodpecker is a scansorial bird; adapted for climbing; as, a scansorial foot..

Redhead :: Redhead (n.) The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.

Climber :: Climber (n.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot..

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck..

Speckt :: Speckt (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight.

Speight :: Speight (n.) A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight..

Random Fonts

Most Popular